Hackers have released a batch of 38,000 emails they claim belong to a leading computer crime investigations specialist in a move which could potentially compromise on-going international investigations.

A group linked to hacker collective Anonymous announced yesterday that they had taken control of the email account of a former Special Agent Supervisor of the California Department of Justice.

The leaked emails reveal correspondence between international internet crime investigators including Irish police and UK specialists discussing methods of tracking people using their social networking accounts and mobile phone records.

The hack is the latest in a series of attacks on US police targets and was claimed to be a direct retaliation for the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street camp.

The account is said to contain…

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